Sr. Software Engineer

Overview

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you play a role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our software solutions. Your expertise in software development and commitment to delivering high-quality, compliant solutions for our customers will guide your day to day. You will work with a variety of technologies and frameworks to complete tasks in an efficient manner. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions in an agile environment.

Leveraging your expertise as a Senior Full Stack Developer, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications, playing a key role in optimizing both front-end and back-end components to ensure seamless performance and user experience. You’ll be responsible for understanding existing codebases and design approaches while evaluating new technologies to deliver the most effective solutions to complex challenges.

You will be working within a team of highly accomplished software engineers in an environment which actively encourages collaboration and learning from one another. The leadership team is committed to supporting you in your learning and development and helping you to further advance your career.

To empower our developers, we will equip you with the best hardware and software available.

We are a team that believes in our work as an organization and are looking for team members who lead with curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise software applications
• Collaborates with the product team on requirements elicitation to deliver software
• Authors and reviews unit/integration test
• Participate in code and software review processes
• Collaborates with members of the product, test, and software engineering organizations
• Responsible for one or more significant modules of a single software application
• Oversees the work of people at lower levels of the organization and provides significant feedback to team efforts
• Contributes to process improvements and team process documentation
• Builds relationships to solve problems directly and limit management escalations
• Able to identify and anticipate risks related to their own work and communicate them pro-actively to product leadership
• Can break complex deliverables into smaller parts and deliver them piece wise to enable collaboration
• Consistently produces deliverables that do not require revision
• Shows initiative beyond checking tasks off a list and can identify and suggest areas of work of future work for themselves and the team

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience in similar roles
• Experience working in a highly collaborative Agile software organization

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.